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Lantastic Network Primer for Beginners A NETWORK PRIMER An introduction to some fundamental networking concepts and the benefits of using LANtastic. COPYRIGHT © 1996 Artisoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This information file is copyrighted with all rights reserved. TRADEMARKS LANtastic and Artisoft are registered trademarks of Artisoft, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are used for descriptive purposes only and are the property of their respective owners. LIMITED WARRANTY Artisoft makes no warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of this document. Artisoft is not responsible for lost profit or revenue, loss of software use, loss of data, cost of re-creating data, cost of any substitute equipment or program, or any other claim. Artisoft makes no warranty that complying products will operate under any other conditions, or that products will satisfy requirements, or that products will be without defect or error, or that product operation will be uninterrupted. Artisoft's aggregate liability is limited to the total of payments made by the customer for the Artisoft product and Artisoft shall not in any case be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages, even if it has been advised of the possibility of those damages. Artisoft, Inc. 2202 N. Forbes Blvd. Tucson, Arizona 85745 Headquarters: 1 (520) 670-7100 Fax: 1 (520) 670-7101 Sales: 1 (800) 846-9726 Version 1 [6/10/96 – SM] A NETWORK PRIMER CONTENTS What is a network? . 4 What are the advantages of using a network? . 4 What's the difference between a server and a client? . 5 How do I use a server's drives or printers? . 5 What is network security? . 6 How do I “log in” to a server - and why would I need to? . 6 What if someone else is connected to the server I want to use? . 6 Can I use the printer attached to my own computer? . 7 Will networking activities interfere with my regular work? . 7 Are there special considerations about sharing programs on a network? . 5 What if I want to shut down my computer?. 8 What version of LANtastic is right for me? . 8 How can I find out more about LANtastic?. 9 Welcome to the world of computer networking. This file introduces you to some fundamental networking concepts and tells you how you can save time and money by connecting your computers with the LANtastic® network operating system. 3 4 What is a network?__________________________________ A network is made up of electronically connected computers located relatively close to each other, usually in the same building. The network consists of all of your computers and some or all of their components, such as disk drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, fax boards and modems. It also includes the network adapter cards, cables and other hardware used to connect the computers, along with the network software itself, such as the LANtastic network operating system. Award-winning LANtastic has been providing easy-to-use, affordable and safe networking solutions for small and mid-sized businesses since 1982. Today LANtastic connects diverse computers using DOS, Windows®, Windows 95/98 and NT- as well as computers running other network software, including Novell® NetWare®. LANtastic is manufactured by Artisoft®, Inc., an industry leader in the areas of networking, communications and computer telephony. What are the advantages of using a network? _________ A computer network saves you time and money. For example: ■ You can make an expensive high-quality printer available to everyone who needs it - not just to the person who has it attached to his or her computer. ■ You can store a corporate database on a computer with a large-capacity disk drive - and everyone can use it from her own desktop. ■ Instead of buying everyone his own copy of an application program, you can purchase a network version and share it from just one computer, saving everyone disk space. ■ To keep your file backups simple, you can store everyone’s word-processing files on the hard drive of one computer and regularly back up that disk only. The computer that has the shared printer or disk drive is called a server, which is a key concept that you need to understand in order to use a computer network. LANTASTIC 8.0 ONLINE LIBRARY 5 What's the difference between a server and a client? _______________________________________ A server shares some or all of its devices and accessories, such as disk drives, printers and modems, with other computers on the network. A client (often called a workstation) doesn’t. The only way you can use a client’s disk drives is to sit at its keyboard. Servers come in two types: dedicated and nondedicated. LANtastic supports both. A dedicated server serves only the network; no one sits at its keyboard and does daily work. Many small networks don’t need such a server, but as your network grows you may decide you want to dedicate a server to doing nothing but processing print jobs, for example. In fact, if the server handles a lot of traffic, you may want to upgrade it for faster speed by installing the LANtastic Dedicated Server software on it. A nondedicated server functions as both a client and a server. In other words, someone regularly works at its keyboard, but it also shares its drives and printer with other people on the network. This is the most cost-effective way to set up your network, because you don’t have to put a computer aside just to handle network processing. How do I use a server's drives or printers? ____________ Opening a file that’s stored on another person’s disk drive is just like opening a file of your own. First you “connect” a virtual drive letter on your computer (such as M:) to the server’s C: drive, then simply issue the usual open-file command and specify the location of the file on Drive M: (for example, M:\BUDGET\Q2). The spreadsheet, text or graphic appears on your monitor, ready for editing. Sending a job to a server’s printer is even easier, because often a permanent connection to a server’s printer has been set up during software installation. In such a case, you simply issue your application program’s print command, exactly as you always have. Note… Although LANtastic lets you set up permanent drive and printer connections at software installation, during your daily work you may need to make new ones. By default the new connections that you make are temporary connections that last only until you shut down your computer. However, you can easily make new permanent connections that become active each time you run LANtastic. A NETWORK PRIMER 6 What is network security? ____________________________ Network security gives selected people access to certain servers, directories and files - and keeps other people out. For example, in order to give your accounting staff exclusive access to your company’s payroll files, you could use LANtastic to assign those files a password that only your accountants can use. LANtastic provides multiple levels of network security, from the default of none at all to security that’s fine-tuned enough to limit access to a single file. LANtastic security also gives network managers several ways to track how many people are using which servers for what purposes. Of course, all of these security features are optional. If you don’t need them, you can keep LANtastic’s default of no security, so everyone on the network has full access to every shared drive and printer - without ever typing in a user name and password. How do I “log in” to a server - and why would I need to? ____________________________________ If the person who manages your network sets up security on a server, he or she will assign you a user name and password. From then on, whenever you make a connection to that server, LANtastic will ask you to type in that user name and password - a process that’s known as “logging in.” If your login is correct, you’ll be connected and can then select the drive or printer you want to use. What if someone else is connected to the server I want to use? _______________________________________ If two people open a file on a server’s disk drive or CD-ROM, the server rapidly fills both requests. However, as more people start to open files, the server’s response time begins to slow down. When this happens, you can change the server’s software settings to allow more requests to be handled efficiently. If you’re among a group of people who use the same server’s printer, your job waits in line behind previous ones. However, you don’t have to leave your desk to check on printing progress. LANtastic lets you view the status of your print job right on your own monitor - and even notifies you when the job is done. LANTASTIC 8.0 ONLINE LIBRARY 7 Can I use the printer attached to my own computer? ____________________________________ How you use your own printer depends on whether or not your computer is a server, and, if it is, whether or not your printer has been set up to be shared on the network. If you do have a shared printer, you’ll have to use LANtastic to make a permanent connection to it - just like any other network user. Once you’ve done this, you can send your jobs for printing in the usual way. Your job waits in line with other network jobs. Will networking activities interfere with my regular work?______________________________________________ When someone is using your disk drive or printer, you can keep right on working at your keyboard and making your own connections to other servers.
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